| Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | fantasy film, action film, adventure film, space opera, science fiction film, epic film |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | romance film, drama film, crime film |
| The Champ | Franco Zeffirelli | drama film, boxing film |
| Ordinary People | Robert Redford | drama film |
| The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu | Peter Sellers, Richard Quine | comedy film, science fiction film, parody film |
| The Sea Wolves | Andrew V. McLaglen | action film, war film |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie | Chuck Jones | — |
| The Van | Sam Grossman | comedy film |
| The Blue Lagoon | Randal Kleiser | coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film, drama film, survival film, melodrama |
| The Jerk | Carl Reiner | screwball comedy film |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Art Linson | comedy film, biographical film |
| Macabre | Lamberto Bava | horror film |
| The Watcher in the Woods | Vincent McEveety, John Hough | mystery film, horror film, ghost film, science fiction film |
| The Electric Horseman | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film, adventure film |
| ...And Justice for All | Norman Jewison | drama film, LGBTQ-related film, trial film, comedy drama, crime film |
| Midnight Madness | Michael Nankin | teen film, comedy film, treasure hunt film |
| The Amsterdam Kill | Robert Clouse | drama film, action film, crime film |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller | horror film |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone | drama film, action film, boxing film |
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer | time-travel film, science fiction film |
| Americathon | Neal Israel | comedy film, retrofuturism |
| More American Graffiti | Bill L. Norton | coming-of-age film, teen film, drama film, comedy film |
| The Warriors | Walter Hill | drama film, action film, thriller film, hood film |
| Damien: Omen II | Don Taylor | mystery film, horror film |
| The Sky Trap | Jerome Courtland | adventure film |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, war drama, drama film, satirical film, action film, horror film, thriller film, adventure film, war film, psychological drama film, epic film |
| A Wedding | Robert Altman | drama film, comedy film |
| Alice in Wonderland | Bud Townsend | musical comedy, fantasy film, pornographic parody film, pornographic film, erotic film, musical film |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | drama film |
| Love and Bullets | John Huston, Stuart Rosenberg | drama film, action film, crime film |
| Superman | Richard Donner | superhero film, action film, science fiction film |
| High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | mystery film, parody film |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | drama film, comedy drama |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | teen film, musical film, romantic comedy |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | drama film, crime film |
| The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | music documentary film, concert film |
| F.I.S.T. | Norman Jewison | drama film |
| Return from Witch Mountain | John Hough | mystery film, fantasy film, children's film, science fiction film |
| The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | mystery film, drama film, thriller film |
| The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | drama film, action film, thriller film, detective film, buddy cop film |
| The World's Greatest Lover | Gene Wilder | parody film |
| Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | romance film, drama film |
| You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, drama film, comedy drama |
| The Greatest | Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | drama film, biographical film, boxing film |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | monster film, horror film, science fiction film |
| Bound for Glory | Hal Ashby | drama film, biographical film, musical film |
| At the Earth's Core | Kevin Connor | fantasy film, adventure film, science fiction film |
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | drama film, action film, thriller film |